Google Says No More Cens*rship! Looks like a battle is heating up between Google and China. In response to a cyber attack, which led to the compromise of Chinese dissidents’ gmail accounts, Google is no longer censoring their search engine on Google.cn and is considering leaving China altogether. FYI, Chinese Internet users largely ignore Google, [...]
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Yes, my own little Linyi! On Reuters International for…. giving electro-shock therapy to Internet-addicted teens. Oh, Linyi, this is just the sort of thing I expect from you. So quirky, so fun. From Reuters: China Bans Electro-Shock Therapy 14 July 2009 BEIJING (Reuters) – China has banned electro-shock therapy as a treatment for Internet addiction, [...]
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That would be the Great Firewall of China to those of you not in the know. Curious thing about Hong Kong, although supposedly sovereign Chinese territory, it exists independently with a gloriously uncensored Internet. For a week I enjoyed unfettered access to all that is good and subversive on the Web, access which I promptly [...]
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Okay, so it is time for some explaining — where have I been? On a deserted tropical isle? In the mountains of Tibet? No, I’ve been here all the time, pounding away at my computer keyboard, hoping that each new day might bring a better Internet connection. The earthquake that cut several telecommunication cables off [...]
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Could it be true? Can I actually access the Internet? **Happy Dancing** More to come on my lunch break!!
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Ha! Take that Great Firewall of China! Thanks to Tor I am blogging all willy-nilly on a blocked blogging platform within China!! (Also thanks the Firefox – the Google search bar is the only way I can access Google!) I am quite shocked that there is a noticeable difference in the amount of website blockages [...]
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It’s election day in the US, or at least it will be in a few hours. Instead of talking about politics, I want to return to the topic of Internet censorship that I brought up a few posts ago. Reporters without Borders is organizing an online protest against Internet censorship. They’ve highlighted the world’s worst [...]
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Good News! Mahmood’s Den is open and unblocked! This was not an outright win for bloggers and anti-censorship, however, because Mahmood was able to get his site back up and running because he removed some of the so-called offensive content (the stuff on election scandals). BUT, he was able to meet with the Information Ministry [...]
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That is my last Monty Python reference, I promise, and besides, I have something serious I want to talk about right now. Web censorship. I encountered this everyday in China. For instance, I could never access any blogspot blogs, many news sites, and most especially, Reporters Without Borders. (An organization which teaches journalists and bloggers [...]
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A lovely Sunday morning, and I am taking a risk by using the computer. See, for the past month, every Saturday and Sunday afternoon, the power has gone off for about 3 hours. Usually they warn us in the morning, knocking on the door to say, “Today, power out.” This morning I went into the [...]
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I'm an American expat living on the fringe of Chinese society. Thanks to a lifetime spent moving around, I often feel like an outsider. This blog explores life in Beijing, China, the occasional aviation topic, expat issues, random travel experiences and interesting things I see, read and hear. If you want to know more about my latest hobby, visit Sewing on the Fringe, where I blog about learning to sew in Beijing. And for daily documentation of Beijing's ever changing air quality, visit My Beijing Window.
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